Professor Taborek is an experimental condensed matter physicist. His laboratory conducts experiments on a wide variety of systems ranging from phase transitions in quantum fluids to cilia generated flows around Xenopus frog embryos. He is also a Mathematica enthusiast and has authored an e-book on mathematical methods with Mathematica that is used in several UCI courses. Current lab projects include:

Ellipsometric and work function studies of alkali metal surfaces to probe the interaction between superfluidity and first order liquid-vapor coexistence in adsorbed helium films.

Using high speed video microscopy to study pinch-off and coalescence in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids and bubbles.

Development of novel AFM probes coupled to an optical fiber interferometer to study thermodynamic Casimir forces in superfluids and near field radiative transport in superconductors.

Development of techniques to measure flow through single nanotubes and nanopores.

High pressure studies of the kinetics of CO2 clathrate formation . This part of a collaboration with Prof. Dunn-Rankin funded by the Keck Foundation to explore clathrate combustion and carbon sequestration using clathrates.